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A Forecast of the 

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The United States in Prophecy, or a 
Forecast of the Future 

PROPHETICAL POETRY 

Thy fleets to all nations thy powers shall display, 
The nations admire and the oceans obey. 
Each shore to thy glory its tribute unfold 
And the East and the South yield their spices and gold. 
The day spring unbounded thy splendors shall flow, 
And Earth's little Kingdoms before thee shall bow, 
While the ensign of Union in triumph unfurled — 
Hush, Anarchy, sway and give peace to the world. 

Mr. Matthew Henry in his introduction on the 38th and 39th Chap- 
ters of Ezk. says that these two chapters are concerning Gog and Ma- 
gog, a powerful enemy to the people of Israel, that should make a 
formidable descent upon them in the valley of Esdralon, etc., and that 
this prophecy probably had its accomplishment sometime after the re- 
turn of the people of Isreal out of their captivity, whether in the 
struggles they had with the Kings of Assyria, especially Antiochus, 
Ephiphanes, or perhaps in some other way not recorded, we cannot 
tell if Sacred History of the Old Testment had reached as far as the 
prophecy, we should have been better able to understand these chap- 
ters, but for want of that key, we are locked out of the meaning of 
them. We learn from the frank admission of Mr. Henry, that he was 
in doubt about his interpretion of these two chapters. Now, I am 
aware of the fact, that for me to undertake the task that balked 
this great scholar, with his master mind, will subject me to the severest 
criticism. 

Knowing this, I approach the subject with the utmost caution, after 
having studied it for several years, and submitting my ideas to quite a 
number of Bible students, receiving their endorsement. One of the 
greatest difficulties "hat I have found in interpreting the scriptures is 
the disposition on our part to modernize the language in which it 
was written. In translating from the original we are not careful 
enough to get the real meaning as it applies to the changed conditions 
in the present dispensation. 

Mr. Henry's admission in his commentary that Sacred History did 
not continue Icing enough to give us the key to the interpretation of 
these two chapters is sufficient to convince us that we would have to 
wait for further development in the events of the World's History, to 
connect the chain of prophecy with those which had already had their 
fulfillment in the past, in order to get the key to their interpretation. 
Recognizing this fact, will give the reader an example of some of the 
prophecies in this chain and their fulfillment, supported by scriptural 
references and a definition of prophecy as given by Thomas H. Horn in 
his book. Confidentlv believing that I have the key to the inter- 



2 The United States in Prophecy, or a Forecast of the Future 

pretation of these two chapters I will give the reader the key words 
together with the facts. The words will be found in the second 
Chapter of the Prophecies of Nahum, third verse, which reads, "The 
shield of his mighty men is made of red; the valiant men are in 
scarlet; the chariot shall be with flaming torches in the day of his 
preparation." This last word has its parallel in the seventh verse of 
the 38th chapter of Ezekial. The uniform of the United States 
soldier has been changed from navy blue to scarlet. The other word 
is prepare. These two words enabled me in 1917 to arrive at definite 
conclusion which I submit in a statement of facts, leaving the reader 
to draw his own conclusion as to their validity. 

Before entering upon an interpretation of the prophecy of the 38th 
chapter, I offer a definition of prophecy given by Thomas Horn in 
his book on an introduction to a critical study of the Bible. 

"Prophecy is a miracle of knowledge, a declaration or discription or 
interpretation of something future beyond the power of human sag- 
acity, to discern, or calculate, and it is the highest evidence that can 
be given of supernatural communion with Deity and of the truth of a 
revelation from God." 

Difference between the pretended predictions of the Heathen Ora- 
cles and the prophecies contained in the scriptures. 

The oracles of the ancient heathens were delivered with either the 
purpose of supplying or satisfying some trivial curiosity or to abet the 
designs of some ambitious leader. They offered spontaneuous predic- 
tions. Those conducting them threw various obstacles in the way of 
inquiry, sacrifices etc. Sometimes something deficient in the sacri- 
fices were discovered when too late for their fulfillment. 

Widely different are the prophecies contained in the scriptures, for 
they were delivered without solicitation and were pronounced openly 
before the people and the prophet knew himself exposed to capital 
punishment if any of his predictions failed. The events foretold were 
often complicated and remote, some were accomplished shortly after 
they were delivered, others somewhat later. But the different events 
foretold were so connected with each other that the most distant bord- 
ered pi-etty closely upon some others, the accomplishment of which 
was preparatory to the fulfillment of the last. The fulfillment of 
the first served to raise an expectation of those which were distant 
and the accomplishment of the last served to confirm the first. 
USE AND INTENT 

The use and intent of prophecy was to raise expectation and to 
soothe the mind with hope, to maintain the faith of a particular 
providence and the assurance of a promised Redeemer and to attest 
the Divine inspiration of the Scriptures. 

The chain of prophecies are too wonderful for the powers of man 
to conjecture or to effect. Many of those which are found in the Old 
Testament foretold unexpected changes in the distribution of earth- 
ly power, and whether they announced the fall of flourishing cities or 
the ruin of mighty empires, the event minutely corresponded with the 
prediction. These prophecies form a regular chain or system. 

1st. The prophecies relating to the Jewish Nation in particular. 

2nd. Prophecies relating to the neighboring nations or empires. 

3rd. Prophecies directly announcing the Messiah. For example 
I have recorded a few of the prophecies I'elating to the Jews. 

First, predictions concerning the posterity of Abraham, Gen. 12, 1, 



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46; Exodus 32, 13; Gen. 22, 2, 4, 22, 17. See the fulfillment of these 
predictions, as to uniformly omit the increase of Abrahams other pos- 
terity, Exod. 1, 7, 9, 12; Ex. 16, 7; Heb. 6, 12. In less than six hun- 
dred years after the first of the above predictions were made the num- 
ber of the Isrealites — amounted to over six hundred thousands. 

Prophecies concerning Ishamael compare Gen. 1, 6, 10, 12, 17, 20, 25, 
12, 18. From him decended the various tribes of Arabs whose numbers 
and manner of living have ever since and to this day are a verification 
of the predictions respecting them. 

It was foretold that the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 
sTiould possess the land of Canaan so that, though they should be ex- 
pelled for their sins, yet their title should endure and they should 
be resettled in it. Accordingly the Jews enjoyed this land for a 
thousand years, and when the two tribes were carried into captivity, 
it was announced that it would be for seventy years, which was liter- 
ally fulfilled. 

The 28th Chapter of Duteronomy contains most striking predictions 
concerning the Jews which have literally been fulfilled. See 2nd 
Kings, 6-29. Moses foretold that their enemies would besiege and 
take their cities, this was fulfilled first by Shishak, King of Egypt; 
Shalmaneser, King of Syria; Nebucadnezzar, Antiocus, Epiphanes, 
Sosians, and finally by Titus. 

Moses told of grevious famines during these seiges so that they 
should eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. This was fulfilled 
six hundred years after the time of Moses among the Isrealites when 
Samaria was besieged by the King of Assyria; again about nine hun- 
di-ed years after Moses amon^ the Jews during the siege of Jerusalem 
before the Babylon'sh captivity and finally fifteen hundred years after 
his time during th3 seige of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus. 

Moses predicted that the Jews should be few in number. This was 
also literally fulfilled by immense numbers perishing by famine during 
the last siege of Jerusalem, after which many thousands were sold; 
also by their final overthrow by Hadrian, when more thousands were 
sold and those for whom purchase could not be found were sent into 
Egypt. Moses had said no man would buy them. In transporting 
them to Egypt many perished by shipwreck and famine and others 
massacred. 

Josiah was prophetically announced by name (Kings 13, 2) three 
hundred and sixty-one years before the event happened. The ful- 
fillment of the prediction was so remarkable as shown that it was 
not from mere man but from God, (2nd Kings, 23-15.) Besides these 
I have given, many other predictions were literally fulfilled. 

I only give two more: Ezk. 5-12, Hosea, 12-17. Isiah said that the 
Jews who remained should be punished for their sins. This was ful- 
filled by the Chaldeans in a few years after. Hosea fortold the pre- 
sent condition of the Jews in these words, "They shall be scattered 
among the nations " I have been thus specific in giving this chain of 
prophecy to enable my readers to critically examine my interpre- 
tions as I am very zealous of the truth, and I ask for a close examina- 
tion, holding myself open for any scriptural evidence to the contrary. 

CHAPTER II 

Ezekial, Chapter 38. 

The question is being often asked and we might say with great 
emphasis, "Was this great war which has involved a greater part of 
the world, which terminated in the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, to be 



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the last? Will the League of Nations be able through its operations 
to preclude the possibilities of another war?" 

To undertake to answer this question intelligently without the aid 
of Holy Writ is beyond the power of mere man and lies outside of the 
horizon of the human mind; therefore, bsing fully aware of this, I 
would not presume to attempt a solution unaided by the Bock of In- 
spiration, and even then I approach it with the utmost caution. After 
seveial years of patient study and strict investigation, let me say, in 
the fiirst place, that I lay no claim to superior wisdom or learning — ■ 
am just a local Methodist preacher, trained under my father who was 
also a Methodist preacher. 

The subject being one of prophecy, let us refer first to some that 
have already been fulfilled in the last few years. Take for instance 
Isiah, Chapter 60, 8, 'Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the 
doves to their window.'' As the word "who" does not refer to fowls, 
this scripture no doubt refers to our aeroplanes, and let me here re- 
mark, by way of calling attention to the fact, that this is an American 
invention, a product of the American brain, (or was perfected by 
Americans.) 

Second, in the prophecy of Nahum Ch. 2, 3, 4, he describes the 
auto. He calls them chariots, 3rd verse, "The shield of his mighty 
men is made red, and the valiant men are in scarlet, the chariots 
shall.be with the flaming torches in the day of his preparation. Th3 
fur trees shall be terribly shaken." 4th, "The chariots shall ra^'e in 
the streets, they shall justle one a-'ainst the cth?r in the broadways, 
they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightening." This is 
also, as you know an American invention, and if it is not our aiitDS 
what are they? Now I call special attention to two words found in 
these two verses. As I have already given them as the key words, 
these two prophecies, which I have given have already gone the 
rounds of the newspapers. I do not pretend to give them as new, 
but as a foundation for further investigation, and as a link in the 
chain. Just how close they border on the fulfillment of the one we 
have under consideration, we have no means of finding out. 

In the prophecy of Ezk., Chap. 38, he says: "Be thou prepared and 
prepare for thyself, thou and all thy company that are assembled unto 
thee and be thou a guard unto them.". Note the connection. The 
auto was to be in the day of his preparation. I ask what has been 
the slogan of the United States since the war with Germany became 
imminent. The answer comes back, "preparedness." Is it net a fact 
that our great President and our nation are looked to as umpires 
in settling the great problem that have grown out of this terrible 
war? Notice how the facts and the predicitions harmonize. 

The next verse reveals the purpose for which the prepardness is 
being made, verse 8: 'After many days thou shalt be visited in the 
latter years, thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from 
the sword and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains 
of Isreal, which have been always waste, but it is brought forth out of 
the nations and they shall dwell safely all of them." Now let's see 
how this verse harmonizes with the facts. If you are at all acquaint- 
ed with the history of the settlement of our country, you are aware 
of the fact that the* white man was not the first settler. The Indians 
or red men were already here and history can give no account of how 
they came here. The international evidences go to prove that they 
occupied this continent for centuries. There are ruins found on this 
continent that appear to be as old as any of the ruins of Asia, and 



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further back in the misty ages of the unknown past, they had been 
preceded by another race, now called the Mound Builders and Cliff 
Dwellers, and the supposition is that the Indians exterminated them 
long before the advent of the white man. We have dug into these 
mounds and found thigh bones of men five feet long. The tall sons of 
Anack have been here brought back from the sword. When our fore- 
parents first landed the red men were divided up into small tribes and 
governed by petty chiefs who were waging a continual warfare with 
each other, and social science tells us that it would have been only a 
question of time when they would have exterminated each other. 
Brought back from the sword; while we have nearly exterminated the 
Red men, we have made it a peace loving nation. Gathered out of 
many people, or out of the Nations. The fact is, this country, 
(United States of America,) is settled by every nationality in the 
world. The red men were found here and they, have emigrated here 
from every nation in the known world of their own accord, except 
Africa, and the Dutch through greed went to Africa and kidnapped 
them and brought them here and sold them to our forefathers as 
slaves, unconsciously perhaps, making the facts harmonize with the 
letter of the predictions. This country is known as the "melting 
pot" of the nations. 

Notwithstanding the fact that this country had been occupied by 
the red men for ages, it was still a barren waste infested with wild 
animals, upon which the Indians were preying. He only cultivated 
small patches to raise a little maize or Indian corn to make his sofka 
and some tobacco to smoke. So we again reach a definite conclusion 
without doing violence to the text. 

Chapter III 

It is now brought forth out of the nations under the existing con- 
ditions and the wonderful developement of our country today this needs 
but little comment. You have but to look around you at the cities 
and towns with all our modern improvements and millions of acres of 
land in the high state of cultivation, producing grain to feed and cot- 
ton to clothe a large per cent of the world to be overwhelmed with the 
evidence. 

Dwelling safely all of them — fact. The geographical situation of 
our country, being between the two great seas, so isolated us from 
the other great nations of the world that we have dwelt in compari- 
tive safety. Three thousand miles of rolling waves have up to the 
present time furnished a sufficient bari-ier to protect us from the 
greed of the covetous nations of Europe, but the day is fast approach- 
ing when the ocean will no lon-jer be the barrier that it now is. Verse 
9, "Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm; thou shalt be like a 
cloud to cover the land; thou and all thy bands, and many people with 
thee." I got my first thought on this subject in 1863 by listening to 
a conversation between my father and a gentleman from St. Louis, 
Mo. They were discussing a book written by Mr. Baldwin, the title of 
which was'"THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY, or ISRAEL RE- 
STORED." This was during the war between the states and Mr. 
Baldwin in his book had contended that United States was Israel 
restored and the scene or place of the last great battle of the world 
would be fou-'ht in the Mississippi valley. ' Their idea was that 
some of the nations of the world would take sides with the South and 
some with the North and there by precipitate that great conflict. It 



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was very natural for him, writing at the time he did, to lay the scene 
of this great battle, which is called the "Battle of the Armegeddon" 
(see book of Rev. 20-8.) This great river was at that time the artery 
of commerce, leading through the center of our country. But it 
would have been impossible to have fulfilled this passage at that 
time, as the Aeroplane had not been invented. "Thou shalt ascend and 
come like the storm. Isiah 40, 8. "Who are these, etc. ? We 
read and reread this verse and it never occurred to our minds that the 
word "who" does not refer to fowls, until the Wright Brothers invent- 
ed the plane, then we had to admit that Isiah saw this 800 years be- 
fore the coming of the Messiah. Ascend, you know, means to go up; 
to come like a storm with a great noise. I here venture the opinion 
that we are not yet ready for the literal fulfillment of this prediction, 
as the areoplane is not yet perfected to the extent as to furnish the 
noise. 

A few years ago a Boston scientist perfected an electric machine 
that if placed on shipboard was capable of detecting an object on the 
bosom of the ocean, two and one half miles, giving the exact location, 
direction and distance, also measure the depth of the ocean at any 
given point. Some scientists were telling Mr. Edison about it and he 
had a vision. He said that the flight of the coming aeroplane would 
not be as the Eagle but as the buzz of the bee, and added "Boys, I am 
getting too old to perfect it, but you can." They have since bsen 
studying the humble bee and the oscillating motion of the wings to 
apply it to the aeroplane. When this is accomplished they can stand 
over a given point and di'op a bomb with as much precision as we now 
shoot a rifle ball and be gone in the twinkle of an eye, and the buzz 
of the wings will furnish the noise. 

Chapter 28, Verse 10 — "The purpose for which they come." Thus 
saith the Lord God, it shall also come to pass that at the same time 
shall things come into thy mind and thou shalt think an evil thought, 
as in all wars of conquest the intent will be evil. 

Sin being the cause, the objective will be conquest first, but in this 
covetousness and greed will finally dominate as it is revealed in the 
12th chapter, verse 11. "And thou shalt say, I will go up to the 
land of unwalled •/illages, having neither bars nor gates, dwelling 
without walls having neither bars nor gates, and are at rest, dwelling 
safely." As before stated, our almost complete isolation from the 
other continents there has existed no necessity for forts, conse- 
quently we have but few, and no walled cities. Here the facts agree 
again with the letter. 

12th verse, "To take a spoil and take a prey, to turn thy hand 
against or upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon 
the people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten cat- 
tle and goods." He here repeats some declarations made in some of 
the preceding verses. At the time Ezekial wrote this and made these 
predictions their wealth consisted largely in cattle and goods, there 
was but little money in circulation. Now the first question that pre- 
sents itself to our minds is, will the wealth be there for them to come 
after? Here I am going to relate some facts that comparitively 
speaking will read like the Arabian Nights or Sinbads voyages. Just 
two hundred and ninety nine years ago last December, 1919, the May- 
flower landed on this continent at Plymouth Rock with one hundred 
and one souls on board. There was at that time two small settle- 
ments of white people in the bounds of what is known as the United 
States, one at Jamestown, Va., and the other one at St. Augustine, 



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Florida. These two settlements were made by adventurers. We 
generally date the beginning of our civilization with the landing of the 
Mayflower. 

These emigrants, it is said, had only eight months provision. If 
they had any money, history is silent as to the amount. And with 
this small pittance as the beginning we have outstripped the nations 
of the world in the accumulation of wealth. We sometimes reach 
conclusions by comparison. Take China for instance, China boasted 
of a civilization four thousand years old bafore Columbus discovered 
America, with a continent capable of producing as much, if not more 
wealth, than the United States, and by 1910 we could have bought 
every man, woman and child on the continent of China for fifty dol- 
lars per head and had one hundred billion dollars left to operate on. 
Or take South America, which was settled principally by the Latin 
races. About the time the Mayflower landed on this continent Piz- 
zario landed on the shores of South America. Today we could buy 
the whole continent at a reasonable figure and have a few millions left. 
The state of Brazil embraces as much or more territory than the 
United States of America. The Amazon river drains a larger terri- 
tory than the Mississippi of rich alluvial land, with climatic conditions 
equally if net superior for the production of wealth, and yet the 
United States have accumulated more wealth than the whole continent 
of South America. 

There is a reason for this, and it is to be found in the way in which 
they landed and the difference in the settlers. When Pizzario landed 
on the coast of Brazil, the first thing he did was to plant a Roman 
cross, then he hoisted the Flag of Spain and with a drawn sword 
he took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. 
The country was then settled by the Latin race. When the Pilgrim 
occupants of the Mayflower landed it was quite different. The first 
foot that touched tt^e snow clad surface of Plymouth Rock, was that of 
the virgin, Mary Chilton and when the whole company had gotten on 
shore the first thing they did was to open the Bible, read a chapter, 
then kneel down in the snow and offer praise and thanksgiving to the 
great Ruler of the Universe. 

They virtually took possession of the country in the 
name of the God of the Bible. Just what this meant has been demon- 
strated by the most wonderful prosperity this world has ever witnessed. 
Truly the Lord has been with us; the God of Jacob has had a hand in 
the great development of our land. May He still abide with us as 
our refuge and strength. The difference in the settlers: one is 
settled by a single race, comparatively speaking, the other out 
of many or from among the nations, by a natural law 
of selection we might say, the pick of the world. The conditions under 
which this country was first settled were such that the timid and in- 
valids did not come here. It involved a three to six months voyage 
across the ocsan with all the dangers accompanying the voyage in the 
crude sailing vessels of that day, and the facing of the savage abori- 
gines on arrival, consequently none but the most daring, enterpris- 
ing and courageous would undertake it. This, in part, is one of the 
reasons of our great prosperity. By a natural law, that like bagets 
its like, consequently we are the descendants of the most enterprising 
of the different nations of the world, but we have nothing of which to 
boast, as it is brought about by an over ruling Providence, or in other 
words, God is by the natural law of selection, preparing for himself a 
people through which he will eventually make his name known to all 



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the World. Notwithstanding the fact that we had practically nothing 
to start on and a continent to subdue, also a barren waste to develop, 
in the short space of two hundred and ninety years, (when compared 
with the other nations of the world,) our wealth had reached the enor- 
mous sum of one hundred and twenty billions, or a little more than ona 
fourth of the wealth of the whole world, up to 1910. Our wealth had 
been increasing at the rate of twenty billion in a decade, but by 1914 it 
was 100,040,000,00, or twenty billions in four years, and in 1918 the 
comptroller of the U. S. treasury said that we were worth 180 billions. 
Thus our wealth is increasing by leaps and bounds with the possibili- 
ties of accumulating greater than ever before. The cutting of the 
Panama canal, joining the two great oceans, places us right in tha 
highway of the commerce of the whole world. The present conditions 
are forcing us to increase our merchant marine. It was England's 
control of the commerce of the world that made London the money 
center of the world for many centuries. She kept her ships hugging 
the coasts of the other continents the year round, filling her coffers 
with their gold and thereby became the dictator of the finances of the 
whole world. 

But the late world war has altered the conditions. England has 
been the largest looser and we are fast becoming the greatest builder. 
Our persident, Mr. Wilson, advocated the building a merchant marine 
sufficient to form a veritable poontoon bridge from New York to Liver- 
pool. Who knows but that the U-Boat was an instrument in the 
hands of a divine providence in changing the two centers ? Germany 
has been the center of education and England the center of wealth and 
commerce. The center of wealth has alreay changed to America and 
the war has so demoralized Germany that she will no longer be able to 
compete with us on educational lines and before the end of this century 
Germany will be coming to America to complete her education. 

We have produced our wealth by our agricultural, manufacturing 
and mining industries. While our commerce has been very limited, if 
now we can get the control of the commerce the possibilities of ac- 
cumulating wealth will be increased at least ten fold. Even at the 
rate that it is now increasing, by the end of this century it will be 
eight hundred and forty billions or more than the wealth of the whole 
world at the present time. 

I am proud of the fact that I am an American citizen and rejoice 
that I am a citizen of the state of Texas, the largest, if not the bright- 
est star, in the whole constellation, the gem of the Gulf, which by th^ 
end of the present century will be worth as much as the United 
States was at the end of the Eighteenth Century. Why not, with her 
oil wells producing immense wealth, and rich iron ore in immense 
quantities, her lead, silver and coal and mines yet undeveloped, her 
truck, fruit and timber, her rich rolling prairies, the greatest cotton 
producing area in the world, South Texas with as great possibilities 
as any other portion; trucking, and the growing of citrus fruits, and 
her animal industries, capable of feeding the whole union? We con- 
clude therefore, that the "wealth will be here for them to come after." 

Definitions and Explanations 

Verse 14 — "Therfore Son of man prophecy unto Gog." Who is Gog? 
The names Gog, Magog and Magedo. The word Armegeddon was form- 
ed from Army and Mageddo, which means to cut off, to destroy. Gog 
second son of Japhet. who lived 600 years before Christ, Mag:os: a race 



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like Gomver, the Cimmerians dwelling in the north country, whose 
weapons were bows and arrows, their warriors were all horsemen. 
These terms became symbolical, after a battle between these two 
tribes with the Israelites in the valley of Esdralon at the foot of Mt. 
Mageddo, in which Isreal was victorious. This was the place where 
Joshua overcame the Cannanites and where Saul fell on his own 
sword. Ezekial used these terms in the same manner and sense 
in which we now use the term "Waterloo." 

It seems that they will be ignorant of the safety of the people 
when my people of Isreal dwell safely thou shalt not know it. (Note) 
"When my people of Israel," not Israel. The Christian religion as we 
have it, as you know, was transmitted to us through the Jews who 
were the lineal descendants of Abraham, and were the inhabitants of 
the country called Israel because of their name. Now, if you will get 
your Bible and read the second chapter of Paul's letter to the 
Ephesians, in the 29th verse he says: "Now therefore ye are no 
more strangers or foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints txA of 
the the household of God." 

Here Paul is evidently referring to the Gentiles of whom we are 
a part. In the 14th verse he tells us that the middle wall or parti- 
tion was broken down. We conclude therefore, that we are of Israel. 
In this verse, 16th, he repeats the manner of their coming "as a 
cloud" and in the latter days he also makes known God's purpose, 
that "the Heathen may know me when I shall be sanctified in thee, be- 
fore their eyes, God will make his name known among the nations." 
In the next verse he reminds us of the prophecies of his servants, the 
prophets of Israel, and of his fury that shall come up in his face. 
Verse 19. "For in my jealousy, and in the fire of my wrath have I 
spoken, surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land 
of Israel." (Note here.) Let us get the meaning of the term Israel. 
It was first applied to Jacob after he had wrestled all night with the 
Angel and means "Soldier of God," (Gen. 32-28; Hosea 12-3) or he 
that overcometh. (Let me here insert, by way of parenthesis, that if 
history be true the stars and stripes have never yet gone down nor 
been soiled by conquest unless in the liberation of an oppressed peo- 
ple.) Truly we have won the sobriquet. As further testimony: the 
position we occupied and the principles for which we fought in the 
late war with Germany and Austria for the freedom of an oppressed 
world, with the astounding success that followed our entrance into it, 
we still hold the claim. But the strongest evidence, to my mind, that 
the United States is Israel Restored, as asserted by Mr. Baldwin, is 
that the Government of the United States is formulated after the Di- 
vine Government, it being a trinity. We call it Republican or Demo- 
cratic, a government in which the legislature, judicial and executive 
powers are equally balanced. In the Divine Government there is 
God, the Law Giver, who gave the Law to Moses on the Mount. God 
sent his son Jesus, who proved its constitutionality and sealed it with 
his blood then went back to the Court of Heaven as Judge, and sent 
the Holy Spirit to execute and exemplify it. We have a duplicate of 
this in our Congress, Supreme Court and our President. 

Our forefathers adopted a constitution and sealed it with their blood. 
the triune God gave the Ten Commandments, Jesus came as a man 
and kept them, proving their adaptability to our present condition of 
beiuT, thus freeing us from the penalty of a violate law to which we 
were in bondage. Freedom has never been purchased without the 
shedding of blood. As Israel, or Jacob, overcame at Jabbok, so Wash- 



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ington and his men overcame at Yorktown and set up the only real 
free government that the world had ever seen. Had it ever occurred 
to your mind that the Civil war was fought to maintain the consti- 
tution? We called it to preserve the union on one side and maintain 
states rights on the other, but God saw it in a different light. Our 
constitution granted every man the right of personal liberty and ths 
pursuit of happiness, and yet we had held three million human beings 
in slavery. 

I was a Confederate soldier and it never occurred to my mind that 
we were fighting against our own constitution until fifty years after 
the war was over; could not see it for the "negro in the wood pile." 
We could not do otherwise than go to the rescue of France and Eng- 
land — the liberty of the world was in jeopardy and being threatened. 
Victory for Germany meant slavery for the whole world. 

As further evidence that we are not yet prepared and that the 
spirit of Rebellion is still among us and that we are not yet what the 
United States signifies, we give here as instance, the last Governors' 
election in the great state of Texas. Notwithstanding the fact that 
the former Governor was, or had been, impeached, on his own testi- 
mony, and that by his own friends, over one hundred thousand Texans 
voted for his re-election against the constitution. But we are no 
worse than some of the other states. New Jersey and Minnessota, 
if we may credit the newspapers, are in the throes of political rebel- 
lion against the Federal Constitution, but it's a "jug in the woodpile" 
this time. We have the union but we are most woefully lacking in 
unity. The reason of this is that we have received emigrants faster 
than v/e can assimilate them. Ignorance of the fundamental princi- 
ples of our government and, un-Americanized, they tail 1o ■•omp;"ehend 
its great aims. They must be assimilated in order to become loyal 
citizens and the only way to accomplish this is by educating them in 
our form of government through our public schools and evangelizing 
them through our prctestant churches in protestpntism. I'his ci,n be 
done only by teaching one language and the pi'eaching of one gospel. 
Foreign languages and wornout creeds must go to the junk h^vip. I 
do not mean by this that organic union of the different churches is nec- 
essary, no more than that we should have but one state, but as we 
have forty-eight federated states with the same form of ^-ovevnnient 
working in harmony, bound by the federal constitution, so the different 
ecclestiastic chux'ches must agree upon one gospel, endorsed not only in 
the councils of men, but by the Holy Ghost, whose refining fire is alone 
sufficient to melt this conglomaration of races and nations into one 
grand republic of free and upright citizens, fit to carry the glad tid- 
ings and salvation and liberty to a fallen world. And until this is ac- 
complished, we will have the cry of "peace, peace, where ;here is no 
peace." 

CHAPTER V 
A Glance at the Conditions 

Our lives touch each other at three given points: moralally, socially 
and politically, and these must be so balanced as not to create friction. 
So far we are more or less segregated. We are most woefully divided 
in our church relations; socially, we are in different classes, or castes; 
politically, we are far from being united. We have let partisanship 
demoralize us. The condition in the religious world is so patent that 
for me to produce an argument to prove the assertion would seem to a 
thinking man almost superfluous, but the trouble is that we are in too 



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great a hurry to think, we are much concerned about the high cost of 
living and the where-with-all to be clothed, but what about the high 
cost of sin? We can pay the cost of living and clothing with sweat, 
but it will take both sweat and blood to pay the cost of sin. As I have 
stated, I have had a pretty wide experience in the religious realm. I 
find the same distinctions existing in the churches and among the 
ministry that exist in the social and political. Though not in so 
marked a degree, the same segregation is there. Among the ministry 
we have the "high steeple" fellows and gum-log. In the churches, 
the city folks and the country have about as much dealings as the 
Jews and Samaritans. If you don't believe this assertion suppose you 
dress a little tacky and go into a city church some Sunday, or put on a 
silk hat and don a dude outfit and reverse by going into the country 
church and see what sort of welcome you will receive. Now, I know 
whereof I speak and these conditions will remain until we learn the 
great fundamental truths that Jesus both tau3;ht and exemplified. Our 
slogan now should be save America, that America may save the world, 
morally and socially and politically. 

In the late war with Germany we had an example of what concen- 
tration for a single objective point would do. We had one Comman- 
der-in-Chief for the Allied Armies, one object to attain, and we con- 
centrated all of our energies and means to this one purpose, doffed all 
religious, social and political differences and fought shoulder to 
shoulder against the aggresion of the Kaiser for our common liberty. 
As CTiristians and free men, will we let this example go unheeded 
while we are engaged in the greatest cause that has ever been en- 
gaged in by mortal man? Let's hoist the banner of our King Im- 
manuel above the Stars and Stripes and with Jesus as our Leader and 
the Star Spangled Banner as the emblem of our liberty, march in one 
solid phalanx to the conquest of a fallen and oppressed world. 

CHAPTER VI 
Military Training as Preparation 

"The command is to prepare, and prepare for thyself, thou and all 
thy company that are gathered into thee and be thou a guard unto 
them." 

Israel is to be victorious in this last war and in order to do so will 
have to be prepared. The question then arises, are we doing this? 
Here let me give some facts and then we can draw our own conclusions. 
In the first great wars of the world, the victors were the ones who had 
the greatest physical strength and re;5ular bull dog bravery. This was 
essential on account of the character of weapons they had to fight 
with. They consisted of daggers, bludgeons, catapults, stones, etc., 
hence the Hercules and Hectors were victors. Not much training was 
necessary, but as the weapons changed to bows, swords and spears it 
required more training, but the same bull dog bravery and on the in- 
vention of fire arms it changed again and the victors were the ones 
who had the stediest nerve and could draw the most de"d'Y aim. The 
British General Braddock who had trained soldiers was defeated by un- 
trained frontiersmen who had the nerve and knew how to shoot. 
Take the Alamo in Texas history. Here were one hundred and forty 
odd untrained frontiersmen surrounded by ten times their number of 
trained servants of Santa Anna, but everyone of those men in the 
Alamo had grown up with a gun, been hardened by frontier life, and 
knew how to shoot. The first battle of Manassas in our Civil war was 



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won by untrained militia, but those southern boys had grown up with a 
gun and could bring down a buck at a gallop. They were the direct de- 
scendants of frontiersmen, and had nerve, but it's going to chan::e 
again, and this German war has learned us another lesson, the charac- 
ter of the weapons and the mode of warefare having under gone a most 
wonderful change- The training will be more necessary to meet the 
changed conditions. The victors in the last great war of the world 
will be those who have the swiftest motion and the keenest vision. 
We have already had an object lesson in the bombing of Paris by the 
Germans. Now let's see if we are not training unconsciously it may 
be for just such a catastrophe. 

What does baseball do for a fellow if it does not sharpen his sight 
and quicken his motion? I have watched the game to see what we 
get out of it. They throw the ball like it was shot out of a gun; you 
have to see quick if you see it, then hit quick if you are to hit it, and 
run like Jehu or get hit! The result of this kind of training will in a few 
generations make us the keenest sighted and quickest motion nation in 
the world. Take an analoiious case and see if our conclusions are 
not right. The Apache Indian pi'ides himself in his marksmanship 
and if he shoots at a deer and misses it he will net shoot a second 
time, but hold himself under obligation to catch that deer, so he lays 
down his weapon and strips himself for the race; all but his hunting 
knife. He immediately takes up the chase and his practiced sight, 
practiced for generations, he can trail him like a blood hound. The 
deer runs a little distance and stops, his stops gets shorter every 
time; the Indian never stops but keeps in motion. The deer will get 
hot and make for water; when he stops to drink the Indian describes a 
circle, lets him drink all he wants and when the deer walks out he 
renews the chase; passing through the water he scoups it up with his 
hand, wets his mouth and spits it out. He soon then overtakes his 
victim, cuts its throat and drinks some of the warm blood, then waits 
for him to die but keeps in motion. He then dresses him, goes back 
to where he left his weapon, returns to his tepee and sends his squaw 
for the venison. Now, suppose that one of our foreparents had have 
undertaken to catch an Apache when they first landed here; he would 
have been like a berched-legged fice after a jack rabbit. Had you 
noticed that nearly all of our high schools are now giving military 
training ? Germany demonstrated to the world what thorough train- 
ing would accomplish. Think of the fact that three comparitively 
small nations holding a large part of the world at bay for more than 
four years. You have a president that is not to be despised. In vain 
we are trying to establish a world peace through a league of nations, 
but as long as we train soldiers and manufacture arms and build ships 
of war, we will have war. A gun is made to shoot and soldiers are 
trained to fight. You get no results from the manufacture of guns 
until they are fired, nor from the training of soldiers until you fight, 
then this is the natural result. 

The 16th verse, "And thou shalt come up against my people of 
Israel as a cloud to cover the land." Notice in this verse he says "my 
people of Israel," not Israel. I have already given a definition of this 
word in Chapter 4. In this verse God reveals His purpose that the 
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee before their 
eyes. There are two facts that the prophet keeps prominently before 
us in this chapter. One is, the place where the battle is to be 
fought, and the other is the ones that will be defeated. In the next 
verse he reminds us of the warning that had been given; the 19th and 



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25th tells us of the severity of the battle. In the 21st verse he says 
that "every man's sword shall be against his brother." The United 
States is the only country of which I have any knowledge where this 
prediction could be literally fullfilled, as we are composed of every 
nationality in the world. 

In the prophecies of Daniel, Chapter 11, verse 45, he says: "And 
he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas, in 
the glorious holy mountains, yet he shall come to his end and none 
shall help him." Fact; we are between the seas, so this prediction of 
Daniel harmonizes without doing any violence to the text. 

The common idea is that the Jews will finally be returned to Judea, 
or the original land of Canaan, which was allotted to them in ancient 
times and that these predictions will be fulfilled in this country. 
Nearly all the interpretators that I have read persist in laying the 
scene of this last great battle in the valley of Esdralon where Joshua 
overcame the Canaanites. It seems that we cannot get away from 
the idea that the Jews are a select nation, or a favored people, and 
that the final triumph of the Prince of Peace will favor them. I do 
not care to enter into a controversy on this subject only in so far as to 
establish the facts, as I see them, all ready brought out in the inter- 
pretations of this chapter of the prophet Ezekial. Having already 
referred in this connection to Paul's letter to the Eshesians, Chapter 
2, 19, I will undertake to give an exposition, or interpretation, 
or whatever you are a mind to call it of the convenant which to my 
mind does away with all the distinction of favoritism and makes both 
Jews and Gentiles one people. The Jews were set apart for a special 
purpose. The Messiah having come, the purpose was fulfilled. Now 
why go back under the Jewish Law? 

CHAPTER VII 
The Covenant 

2nd Ephesians — This chapter is headed "What we are by nature 
and what we are by grace." Verse 11: "Wherefore remember that 
ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircum- 
cision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh made by 
hands. 12: "That at that time ye being aliens from the common wealth 
of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no 
hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus ye who 
some times were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ" 
14. "For He is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken 
down the middle wall or partition between us, having abolished in his 
flesh the enemy, even the Law of Commandments contained in the 
ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man so making 
psace." 

16. "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the 
cross, having slain the enmity thereby." 19. "Now therefore ye are 
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints 
and of the household of God. 

The promise referred to in the 12th verse, is the promise that God 
made to Abraham in the 12th Chapter of Genesis, which reads "And I 
will bless them that blesseth thee and curse him that curseth thee and 
in thee shall all famil'es of the earth be blessed." Notice he here in- 
cludes all families of the earth. Then in the 17th Chapter, God came 
to Abraham and entered into a covenant with him and changed his 
name to Abraham. Said he, "For a Father of many nations have I 



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made thee." This declares that he was to be not only the Father 
of the Jews in their lineal descent, but was also to ba the federal head 
of many nations. 

This covenant was predicated upon Abraham after conduct he was 
to walk before him and be perfect, a covenant being a contract entered 
into by two parties with conditions mututally agreed upon by each 
party, each party being bound by those conditions. Gcd then gave 
Abraham the sign of circumcision. He immediately complied with 
this by being himself circumcised after he was ninety years old and 
had all the males of his household circumcised, thus complying with 
this part of the contract. Now consult the 26th Chapter of Gsnesis. 
Here God appeared unto Isaac and renewed the covenant with him 
which he had made with his father, Abraham, and calls it the oath. 
He swore to Abraham, thy father. He also enlarges the promise. 
First, it was to include many nations; now he adds 'all nations of tha 
earth," and also states that Abraham had kept his part of the cove- 
nant. Verse 5: "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept 
my charge, my commandments and my statutes." Here we learn 
that God meant to keep his part of the covenant because, to use a 
modern phrase, that Abraham had made good. This covenant made 
with him according to David, was to last to a thousand generations, 
Ps. 105. — Here David refers to it as made with Abraham and his 
oath unto Isaac. 

But, you ask, what about the new covenant? The new covenant 
was made with the Jews after they had forfeited the privilages con- 
ferred upon them by the Mossaical covenant. Facts. In the 19th 
Chapter of Exodus "we learn after the Jews had escaped Egyptian 
bondage and were come before the mount, Moses ascended the mount 
and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain and instructed him 
to remind the children of Israel what he had done to the E ]:yptians 
and their remarkable delivery and said: "Now therefore, if ye will 
obey my voice in deed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a pecu- 
liar treasure unto me above all people." The 8th verse contains 
their assent in these words: All that the Lord has commanded or 
spoken we will do," and Moses returned the words of the people unto 
the Lord which made the covenant complete. This separated them from 
the balance of the world by rights conferred upon them by this cove- 
nant by a failure to keep upon their part the conditions upon which it 
was based. Jerimiah, 31-31, says: "Behold the days come, saith the 
Lord, whtn I v/iil make a new covenant with the house of Israel and 
the house of Judea, not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the 
land of Egypt, which my covenant they broke." So we see that 
God was released from his part of the covenant, the Jews having 
utterly failed to comply with the coditicns. Now, we consult the 
first Chapter of St. Luke, 72nd and 73rd verses, we learn that the 
Jews are brought back- under or included in the original or Abraham- 
ic covenant, which reads, 72nd verse: "To perform the mercy prom- 
ised to our Fathers and to remember his holy covenant and the oath 
that he swore to our Father Abraham." 

Now to be sure of our conclusion let us consult the 8th Chapter of 
Hebrews which is headed by the "eternal priesthood of Christ the 
Elevitical priesthood is abolished." The 6th verse: "But now hath 
he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the 
mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better 
promises." 



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I ask, what better promises ? The promises that God made to 
Abraham (Gen. 17.) The Mosacial covenant was given to the Jews 
only, which isolated them from the other nations, of whom Paul in the 
2nd chapter of his letter to the Ephesians says: "At that time ye were 
aliens from the commonwealth of Isreal and strangers from th3 cove- 
nants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world." 
Also Rom. 9, 4 to 8, notice the word "covenant" is in the plural not 
singular, referring to the covenant with Abraham and the oath to 
Isaac, then the one made to the Jews at the Mount, Exod. 19, and the 
one referred to by Jeremiah 31, 31, of which Paul is writing to the Heb- 
rews. The first included all nations, the second the Jews only and 
the second that he refers to here is to the Jews which brought 
them back under the first, or Abrahamic covenant. Now if I have 
given the facts and the Scriptures sustaining them, I am forced 
to the conclusion that the Jews no longer hold any special claim 
to their being a favored peolpe, (verses 7 to 13), having failed 
to keep their part of the contract and as to their final return to 
Judea, as I have been taught, I can find nothing in the New Testa- 
ment Scriptures to justify any such conclusion. 

As the term Israel was applied to Jacob for an accomplishment, or 
performances, and not to a section of country (only because of his lin- 
eal descendants being settled in it) during the time of their separa- 
tion from the other nations preparatory for the coming of the Mes- 
siah and the fulfilling of the predictions concerning him, these pre- 
dictions having literally been fulfilled and the descendants of Jacob 
entirely banished from the country, besides the geographical name of 
the country has been changed to that of Palestine, I can see no good 
reason to lay the scene of this last great conflict in that country. 

Again the description of the country given us by Ezekial does not 
suit that country at all. He says that it has been brought back from 
the sword. Palestine has been the battle ground of the nations for 
centuries; her fields are now fresh with the blood of the victims of 
this last war and the swords of contending factions are still gleaming 
in the sunlight on the Judean hills and a million Mohammedans still 
linger on her sacred soil. 

"And is gathered out of many people." The word many here car- 
ries with it in meaning the idea of different nationalities and is con- 
firmed by the words in the same verse. "And is brought out of the 
nations against the mountains of Israel which have been always 
waste." Palestine is one of the oldest settled countries in the world, 
having been occupied before the days of Abraham. "Dwelling safely." 
This would be a misnomer applied to Palestine, as it has been the 
scene or place of war and blood shed ever since Joshua caused the sun 
to stand still on the plains of Gilboah, and perhaps for years before. 

"Unwalled villages." Palestine was peculiarly a country where 
walled villages abounded as reported by the spies sent to spie out the 
land by Moses. 

I have thus been specific in this recapitulation so as to leave no 
doubt in the mind of the reader about what country is intended. If 
this continent is not the one, then there will have to be new discoveries 
made and new set^"Iements to fulfill the prediction. 

CHAPTER VIII 
God's Purpose 

"THAT THE HEATHEN MAY KNOW ME AND THAT ISRAEL 
MAY KNOW THAT I AM GOD." It has been :he rule ever since 



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the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the Gar- 
den that man has been under the reign of law not to be trifled with. 
One of these laws is whatsoever we sow, we shall also reap; if we 
sow to the wind we shall reap the whirlwind. If we disregard the still 
small voice of God a? it is borne on the gentle zephrys as they float 
past us and fan our cheeks, his wrath will be kindlsd against us and 
break forth in vengance like thunderings of Sinai and shake the earth 
with his presence until we be made to know that he is God, and that 
it is he that has made us and not ourselves. We are his people. Ps. 
100. To this end the time is coming when he will make bare his 
mighty arm, and the nations will be gathered in one great conflict to 
settle forever the issue between the true God and Mammon, for he 
says they are coming to take a spoil, to take a prey. Our immense 
wealth will attract them to our shores. The mi:?hty struggle that is 
now going on in our own country between labor and capital will come 
up for adjustment. The fact that we are so absorbed in making money 
that we have lost sight of the Golden Rule will necessitate taking the 
"1" out of gold so that we can recognize the difference between the 
true God and the God of this world. 

But think of the cost of men and blood, think of the sacrifice that 
the world will have to make and the price we will have to pay. In 
the 39th Chapter he tells us that he will only leave a sixth part of the 
mighty host that gathered to settle this great issue Think of a 
burial that it will take seven long months to complete; think of the 
stench in the nostrils for that length of time. Can you imagine the 
extent of the epidemic that will hang like a dark pall over the land, 
and add its thousands to the dead? It is only necessary to read the 
39th Chapter. It needs no comment. If it is to be literally fullfilled 
as all of the predictions have been in the past, the pen of no mere man 
could portray nor tongue could find language adequate to convey but 
a vague idea of the terrible destruction and suffering which will be 
equal to if not more terrible than that of the Jews in Jerusalem when 
they suffered the vengence of God for rejecting his son Jesus. My soul 
stands aghast from the frightful picture and the curtain drops on the 
scene. 

But to all things material there is an end. We are told that this 
will be the last. Isiah 2, 4: "And he shall jud7:e among the nations 
and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into 
plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not 
lift up his sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
more." 

"O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the 
Lord." 

"Wherefore thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, be- 
cause they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like tlie 
Philistines and they please themselves in the children of strangers." 

"Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end 
of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither ic there 
any end of their chariots." 

i give these four verses from the second chapter of Isiah as rhey 
seem to harmonize with the facts, and in conclusion commit them 
to vour candid judgment. 



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CHAPTER IX 
SUBJECT: "REGENERATION." 

2nd Cor. 5-17 — "Therefore if any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a 
new creature." The 16th verse defines the kind of relationship 
which is spiritual and net natural. The word, therefore, in the text 
alludes to this . 

First, I want to g;ive two axioms, one in regard to interpretation and 
one a natural law. In mathematics, if equals be added to equals the 
whole will be equal. This is the axiom. Now the interpretation is 
that no interpretation of scripture can be correct that conflicts with a 
plain dsclaration. The natural law is that like always begets its like. 

If it is was necessary for laul to say that "if any man be in Christ 
Jesus," the inference is clear that all men are not in him, and if not 
why not, and how do or did they 9:et in him, or into him ? As it is not 
here stated, when or how, we will have to infer or bring other scrip- 
tures to our help and these must so harmonize as to make it clear 
without conflict. 

Paul teels us in the sixth chapter of his letter to the Romans, 3rd 
verse, that "we are baptized into Christ" and I am going to take him 
at his word and try to find out by applying the rule of interpretation 
and the law given above v/hen and how it is done. 

Paul tells us in the preceding chapter that the atonement was made 
for all, and the. seventh chapter how he was alive without the law. 
But when he became conscious, sin revived and he died, sin taking oc- 
casion by the law slew him. This alienated him from Christ. Now 
he tells us in the 5th Chapter of Romans, 20th verse, that the law 
entered that the offense might abound but where sin abounded Grace 
did much more abound. 

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign 
through righteousness and unto eternal life by Jesus Christ. Now 
for fear that we might misinterpret this, he begins the 6th chapter 
by saying shall we continue in sin that grace may abound. God for- 
bid! How shall we that are dead, to sin live any longer therein? 
Heie we learn that we must now become dead to sin which implies 
repentance or a turning away from and forsaking of sin, which is 
termed being dead to sin, so that Grace micht reign through ri^'ht- 
eousness. Faith now taking hold of Jesus Christ, who is our right- 
eousness, we are inducted into him by baptism, which is termed by 
Paul the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy 
Ghost. Titus, 3, 5: And here as being baptised into him or into his 
death Romans 6, 3: The sixth verse tells how it is done. Therefore, 
we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was 
raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also 
should walk in newness of life. 

Here controversy begins and ends; now let's decide this by the rules 
already laid down. 

Let me say first, that in order to have a burial three things are ab- 
solutely necessary; first a subject, second a place, third a mode, 
and in the absence of either one of these you could not have a burial. 
Now the first two of these are here mentioned so there can be no 
mistake about them, that is, the subject of burial, which is a body 
dead to sin, and the place of burial which is into death, so that the 
new man may be raised up; in John 3. 3, Christ himself called it being 
born again. Paul said it was being raised up by the Glory of the 



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Father to walk in newness of life, then he gives us another picture 
which is that of planting: For if we have been planted together in 
the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resur- 
rection. Now the mode is not mentioned. Therefore, we will have to 
infer to get the mode or manner and this inference according to our 
rule must not conflict with any plain declaration. 

And in as much as he has given us a burial as the fi:?ure of it, we 
will resort to a national burial for an example; since in Adam all have 
to die, there must be burials as long as the world stands: it is the 
law. "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." G:n. 3. 19. 
A refusal to comply with this injunction would result in the annihila- 
tion of the human family. Death is sure, burial is optional, death 
should precede burial, to bury before death would be murder, to re- 
fuse after death would be annihilation as it is necessary to bury the 
body that died to sin. So that the life of Christ may b3 formed in 
him, so also is it necessary to bury the natural body to parpetuate 
the life of the world. A dead bcdy then is the subject of barial, a 
grave dug in the mother earth is the most common p'ace and is in 
keeping with the injunction mentioned, "dust thou art and unto dust 
thou shalt return." Let's see how it is performed and then we can 
get a definite idea of what Paul meant. We will let the Free Masons 
do the burying and see how they do it. The corpse is carried to the 
grave or place of burial, then lowered into it; this is only preparatory, 
the burial is yet to take place. The master of ceremonies then takes 
a spade or shovel and shovels up some dirt and sprinkles or pours it 
in the grave, using these words: "Earth to earth and ashes to ashes, 
and the spirit to the God who gave it." I ask what is he doin-?? 
You say that he is burying him. How? By sprinkling or pourin:^ 
the dirt on him. When they have finished this part of the 
ceremony they shovel the dirt in until the grave is filled up. Bury- 
ing then is done by pouring. 

Now in order to represent a burial it will have to conform to an 
actual one or convey an incorrect idea and stultify the scriptures. 
This mode does not conflict with a sin2:le text of scripture from Gene- 
sis to Revelations, but harmonizes with the plain declaration made by 
Isiah 44, 45; Ez. 36, 25-22; Joel 2, 28; Acts 2, 17-18;— and in Acts 
1, 5, Luke makes Christ say; "John truly baptised with water, but ye 
shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost not many days hsnce." So 
what Isiah, E-;ekial and Joel called sprinkling and pouring, Christ 
called Baptism, so Faul did not do any violence to the in- 
terpretation when he likened it to a burial. Now, what is water 
baptism? You answer, a symbol or figure. What does it smbolize? 
One says, the new birth or baptism of the Holy Ghost. The 
other says that it symbolizes a death, burial and resurrection. It 
makes no differences which horn of the dilema is correct. Effusion 
is the mode, if I may accept the definition given by Jesus Christ. Paul 
is writing of the spiritual baptism in Cor., 12, 13. He says, "For by 
one spirit are we all baptised into one body." Here is the one Faith, 
one Lord, and the one baptism as he tells in Eph. 4, 5: "All who have 
received this baptism are born from above and are heirs of God 
through Grace and by Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." I here re- 
peat the rule: No interpretation of scripture can be correct that 
conflicts with a plain declaration. It takes a spiritual power to be- 
get a spiritual life. The text says if any man be in him; materially 



The United States in t'rophecy, or a Forecast of the Future 19 

this language is preposterous, gramatically absurd. Jesus Christ 
as we knew him when present, could not contain one man, much less 
ten thousand. 

Now let's apply the rule that like begets or produces its like. This 
being one axiomatic law running through the whole economy of 
nature, will test by it what water baptism does for us. If it is material 
it can only beget a material relationship and as material unite us with 
or beget for us union or induct us into a material body. That is all 
that it can accomplish and if you contend that it takes immersion in 
water to unite you with an immersion church, it's none of my business, 
and if other denominations will receive you into communion by either 
effusion or immersion it is none of your business and why scrap over 
it? Here let me, in conclusion, repeat the rule, "Like begets its like." 
Material things beget material things. It takes a spiritual power to 
beget a spiritual relation, and thus saith the Lord, is the end of all 
controversy. 

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